Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persuaded Britons and Congress leaders that Moslems and Hindus could not cooperate in a unified nation. Almost everybody but Gandhi now accepts the principle of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state or states). Even Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said: "The Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims. "If parts of Punjab and Bengal want to separate no one can compel them the other...
Students living at home or with relatives may still reject the University assignment to a dormitory if they wish, although those living in the Yard and environs have little choice...
...company he keeps. He makes $24,700 a year from the Chronicle and a weekly radio program for a beer sponsor (titled What's Brewing in San Francisco). He can afford to turn down handsome offers from Hearst's rival Examiner, whose company he does not wish to keep...
...story should be only a slight drawback. But disregarding its cosmopolitan nature and chalking up the well-ballyhooed sex angle to an over-zealous press agent, there remains little to click any castanets over. Though the New York Times blushingly called it "as lusty a picture as you could wish," Les Brown had a better term a few years ago. Down at the Old South right now, "Bizet...
...Christ"--a collection which adds up to about two pages per member. Commuters are forced to buck Widener's waiting lit, its frightful lighting system and depressing atmosphere in order to read many widely used volumes which residents can peruse in the comfort of House libraries. If commuters wish to check books out overnight they are put to the further inconvenience of remaining at Widener or Boylston until nine o'clock...